Shopping
Mid Ulster offers a delightful mix of traditional charm and modern convenience. The region is home to bustling market towns like Cookstown, Magherafelt, and Dungannon - along with Coalisland and Maghera, each featuring a variety of shops ranging from independent boutiques to well-known high street brands. Additionally, the area boasts several shopping centres and retail parks, ensuring a comprehensive retail experience.
In the surrounding villages, such as, Moy, Fivemiletown, Tobermore, Moneymore and Stewartstown, shoppers can discover quaint independent stores, cafes and local markets, often featuring handcrafted items and locally produced goods. These smaller communities offer a relaxed and personal shopping atmosphere, rich in local charm.
With an unrivalled mix of quality independent retailers and high street names, together with some of the best places around to enjoy food, drinks and good company, Mid Ulster offers no shortage of opportunities to shop and relax. Treat yourself to a bit of retail therapy or find the perfect gift to take home from your visit to one of our towns and villages.
Cookstown - A historic market town
On-street parking and free car parking provides ease of access to a fabulous choice of shopping including exceptional independent shops situated alongside an abundance of high street names. On Saturday’s, Cookstown’s main shopping area comes alive with an effervescent, busy street market which has a Royal Charter dating back to the 17th Century.
With a mile of shopping that caters for all the family, Cookstown is one place where you can get everything you need within walking distance. This historical market town with a family feel has well established shops that have been serving members of the public for generations, even going so far as to be mentioned in Noble Prize winner, Seamus Heaney’s poetry! Of course, you’ll need a break from all the shopping, and with plenty of cafes, hotels and restaurants to suit every budget and taste you can gather your energy for another burst of treating yourself.
Discover Dungannon
Experience a town steeped in rich history by visiting Dungannon, in the heart of Mid Ulster. The town offers shoppers a unique visitor experience and it is a great retail destination with the regular Flower Market adding colour and fragrance to Market Square. With a fantastic variety of family owned, individual businesses coupled with award winning restaurants, there has never been a better time to shop and discover all that this town has to offer!
From historical sites to beautiful parks and fantastic award winning restaurants to retail excellence in town and at the Linen Green and Oaks Centre - Dungannon simply is at the heart of shopping and socialising. It’s no surprise that visitors come from far and wide to experience one of the most welcoming towns in Northern Ireland.
It is also home to one of Europe’s most important heritage sites, The Hill of The O’Neill- where visitors can view an amazing 360° panoramic view of Ulster. This multi-purpose hub at Ranfurly House Arts and Visitor Centre, narrates the Hill’s role in Irish and European history and is also a busy art and tourism centre with regular entertainment nights and is also home to a tasty coffee shop for visitors.
When you’ve shopped till you’ve dropped, Dungannon is the perfect place to take some time out. Visit Dungannon Park for a relaxing stroll; an oasis of calm in the town.
Never felt better in Magherafelt
Magherafelt is the fashion go-to destination in Mid Ulster. With a huge range of independent boutique stores that house the latest finds and trends straight off the catwalk, Magherafelt is a fashionista’s dream. Whether it’s high street heroes, designer indulgence or inspiring independents, there’s something to suit all budgets in the compact and easily navigated town centre, from Broad Street to Rainey Street to Queen Street to Market Street, and taking in Meadowlane Shopping Centre.
Looking good from the outside is a breeze with all the choice available in the town centre, and Magherafelt’s wide choice of beauty, health and well-being shops and facilities helps you look good from the inside too. With a wide range of rejuvenating beauty houses and soul soothing spa facilities in the town centre, and hotel and B&B accommodation all within walking distance, it’s an ideal place to take a well-deserved break with family or friends. With the ever-expanding café culture and fantastic places to eat for foodies, you can nourish body as well as mind in-between your shopping excursions or spa sessions. There’s no doubt that after a trip to Magherafelt, you’ll have never felt better!
Maghera
The oldest linen mill in Ireland, the William Clark & Sons company, founded in 1736, is situated just a stone’s throw from Maghera. Linens are long established as a material used in homeware and household textiles, and that history has influence the town centre of Maghera today. If home and garden is your focus, Maghera has a wide range of retailers that have the latest trends in furniture, homes and interiors, giving you interior design ideas and inspiration to match your style and create your perfect home
To make your outdoor space feel as put together as your indoor space, you can visit Mid Ulster Garden Centre, established in Maghera since 1973, for all your outdoor living and horticultural needs.
Maghera is the perfect place for a family day out – once you’ve browsed all that the town centre shops have to offer, you can explore Maghera Walled Garden to get some inspiration for the layout of your own garden, and the brand new Largantogher Walkway, that meanders along the outskirts of the town providing peaceful areas to rest along the way.
Coalisland, heart of it all
With the Cornmill and Coalisland Canal at its heart, the town of Coalisland is a bustling mix of well-established family stores with a personal touch. It really comes into its own at Christmas when shops in the town enter into the spirit of the season and Coalisland becomes your one-stop shopping destination for all those stocking fillers and gifts for all the family.
Caolisland is also home to the Craic theatre, a unique venue built on the site of an old weaving factory and supported by a mixture of local volunteers, sponsors and funding from Arts Council NI and Mid Ulster District Council.
Each year the Craic theatre provides first class opportunities and entertainment for the people of the area, both from our in-house theatre company the Craic Players, the youth drama academy, community groups and professional touring companies that put on spectacular shows, concerts and workshops.
Mid Ulster Gift Card
Are you looking for the perfect present? Do you love to shop local? Then choose the Mid Ulster Gift Card. Valid in more than 100 local, independent businesses, the card gives you great choice, from food to fashion, on high streets and main streets at the heart of our community.
If you are looking for the perfect gift idea for friends, family and colleagues then look no further. Give a gift with the freedom to choose from the district’s independent businesses, high street stores, bars, restaurants, attractions and venues. Visit midulstergiftcard.com and buy online today!
